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>> it's really frustrating. there is no other way to put it. >> with no evidence to tie anyone to the crime, the case went cold and the years passed. until 14 years later, when todd park, a cold case detective with the salt lake county sheriff's office, received a telephone call from authorities in neighboring carbon county. >> when that call came in, it gave me, i guess, a fresh breath of air to look at another case and to -- to really dig into it. >> police in carbon county were investigating dale bradley on the suspicion of murdering his second wife, crystal. dale had been a suspect in brya...

Harm bryan, so investigators got a search warrant for his car. it was checked for blood and gunshot residue. >> none of which we found. we didn't find anything. >> in addition, dale and christie bradley agreed to take polygraph tests and they both passed. >> at that point, they kind of dropped his name from the list of suspects. >> meanwhile, investigators pursued another potential lead. two of bryan's fellow security guards had been arrested for stealing from the mine. >> they were arrested for stealing metals of kennecotte property and pawning them for junk metal shops. >> one of those guard...

Shovels, you know, just any kind of equipment you would find around a mine. >> police wondered if bryan might have stumbled on a robbery in progress. >> so a theory came up that maybe these guys were stealing metals off of the property that night, bryan had stopped them and they had killed him to cover up the theft. >> but none of the other security guards could be linked to bryan's disappearance. >> he basically was completely alone up there in the mountain, and it really concerned him that it was an unsafe area, that there were no cameras, no electric gates, no security systems like they had...

Their original suspect, dale bradley, was now a suspect in yet another murder investigation, they decided to look once again at the evidence. and this time, on bryan ruff's boot, the one they found in the mountains near his burial site, they spotted something, some kind of scuff mark on the bottom of the boot that looked like reddish orange paint. >> when i saw that swatch of paint, it just flashed back to me that that was the same color of paint on dale bradley's car. and i got excited and i kind of got butterflies and thought, i got him. >> forensic scientist bill schneck examined this paint...

>> it was a double whammy to have him missing and then to be hit with such horrifying news that everything had been shattered my whole life had been shattered, everything i had dreamed and hoped for was gone. >> jennifer also discovered christie was with bryan in las vegas a few weeks earlier. when confronted with this information, christie admitted the affair to both the police and her husband. >> she told me she thought bryan was really nice and cute and dale was really controlling to her and christie didn't like to be tied down. christie and bryan were able to talk to each other. that's, i ...